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about 18 months ago (11/16/2022)
Chair Stories | ArtsEquator Skip to content In this visual essay, puppet maker and designer Daniel Sim, begins with a set of rejected stage chairs, and ends up on a lyrical journey through Singapore's theatre history...
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about 18 months ago (11/10/2022)
Make Hantus Great Again: Breaking Bread With the Undead | ArtsEquator Skip to content "Make Hantus Great Again", Teatre Ekamatra's latest production, combines kooky supernatural characters with social commentary this Halloween...
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about 20 months ago (09/15/2022)
Berak: Letting it Go | ArtsEquator Skip to content Naeem Kapadia reviews ‘Berak' by Singapore's Teater Ekamatra and comes away moved by the sensitive trancreation of the original play by Chong Tze Chien...
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about 21 months ago (08/24/2022)
Podcast 106: Boom | ArtsEquator Skip to content In our latest podcast, we discuss Boom, a production by A Mirage which took place on 1-20 July 2022...
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about 22 months ago (07/21/2022)
Contemporary Moves In Modern Singaporean Tamil Theatre | ArtsEquator Skip to content Hemang Yadav was involved in a recent development program, Tunjuk Arah/ Iyakkunar, for Malay and Indian theatre directors in Singapore...
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about 26 months ago (03/25/2022)
WINDOW by ATTEMPTS: A click away | ArtsEquator Skip to content "You walk into a black room...
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about 26 months ago (03/24/2022)
Schooled by Singapore Youth Theatre: Teens Tell It Like It Is | ArtsEquator Skip to content Azura Farid reviews Schooled , the play about the concerns of young people devised by the inaugural batch of the Singapore Youth Theatre ensemble, Wild Rice's educational programme for youths aged 13-17 years old...
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about 26 months ago (03/17/2022)
Podcast 102: CITRUS Practices & Library of Care | ArtsEquator Skip to content Adib Kosnan chats with arts practitioners Corrie Tan, Elizabeth Chan and Chong Gua Khee, who are members of CITRUS practices...
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about 28 months ago (12/29/2021)
Podcast 100: Singapore Theatre Year In Review | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 29, 2021 Listen as speakers Ke Weiliang, Lee Shu Yu, Matt Lyon, Nabilah Said and Naeem Kapadia share their thoughts about Singapore theatre in 2021, including observations and shows they found memorable...
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about 29 months ago (12/17/2021)
Year In Review 2021: Singapore Theatre in Statistics | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 17, 2021 Where did 2021 go? As part of our annual event Year In Review 2021 , statistics about 2021 shows were gathered, including those postponed or cancelled...
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about 29 months ago (12/02/2021)
JENG JENG JENG: Singapore Theatre Year In Review 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 2, 2021 JENG JENG JENG…! Year in Review is back! Where did 2021 go?...
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about 32 months ago (08/31/2021)
Bedside Banter: Cyril & Michael by Bridging the Gap Collective | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Bernie Ng August 31, 2021 By Naeem Kapadia (800 words, 2-minute read) Two strangers meet on gay dating app Grindr and share an encounter in a hotel room...
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about 34 months ago (07/29/2021)
The frenemy’s handshake: The Singapore Trilogy as political theatre | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints The Second Breakfast Company July 29, 2021 By Clarissa Oon (2,650 words, 8-minute read) My phone vibrated one night, with a notification that Singapore political party Workers’ Party (WP) was premiering a live video on Instagram...
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about 34 months ago (07/18/2021)
Podcast 94: The Singapore Trilogy by The Second Breakfast Company | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints The Second Breakfast Company July 19, 2021 In the episode of the ArtsEquator theatre podcast, Nabilah Said, Matthew Lyon and Naeem Kapadia discuss The Singapore Trilogy by The Second Breakfast Company, which ran from March 11 to March 21 2021...
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about 34 months ago (07/02/2021)
Podcast 92: Critics Live: OIWA by The Finger Players at SIFA 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Arts House Limited July 3, 2021 Critics Alice Saville (UK), Amitha Amranand (TH), Matthew Lyon (SG) and Taisuke Shimanuki (JP) discuss OIWA: The Ghost of Yotsuya by The Finger Players, presented at Singapore International Festival of the Arts (SIFA)...
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about 35 months ago (06/28/2021)
End of an epic journey: A Dream Under the Southern Bough: Existence | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints CRISPI June 28, 2021 By Jocelyn Chng (1,180 words, 4-minute read) Existence is the third instalment in the Southern Bough series commissioned by Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA)...
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about 35 months ago (06/22/2021)
Podcast 90: Critics Live: The Year of No Return by The Necessary Stage at SIFA 2021 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Tuckys Photography June 23, 2021 Singapore critics Clarissa Oon, Lee Shu Yu, Nabilah Said and Naeem Kapadia discuss The Year of No Return by The Necessary Stage, presented at Singapore International Festival of the Arts (SIFA)...
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about 37 months ago (04/06/2021)
Keturunan Ruminah: WhatsApp play on family inheritance | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints HATCH April 6, 2021 By Azura Farid and Nabilah Said The pandemic led theatre collective HATCH to dream up Keturunan Ruminah (Ruminah’s Family), a play that takes place entirely on WhatsApp...
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about 38 months ago (03/12/2021)
Brown Is Haram: Kristian-Marc James Paul and Mysara Aljaru reclaim their space | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of the artists March 12, 2021 Brown Is Haram: Reconstructing The Brown Narrative is a performance-lecture exploring different aspects of the experience of being brown in Singapore, exploring issues such as social mobility and masculinity...
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about 41 months ago (12/18/2020)
Year In Review: Singapore Theatre 2020 in statistics | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints December 18, 2020 The statistics below are based on data gathered by Ke Weiliang and Centre 42, as part of Year in Review , an annual discussion and round-up of the performing arts in Singapore taking place on 19 December, jointly presented by Centre 42 and ArtsEquator...
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about 42 months ago (11/30/2020)
(Episode 3) What's in a Scene - Cerita Cinta by akulah BIMBO SAKTI | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints November 30, 2020 In this last episode of What’s in a Scene, Noor Effendy Ibrahim and Dalifah Shahril break down a scene from Cerita Cinta (2018)...
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about 42 months ago (11/16/2020)
(Episode 1) What's in a Scene - 《大狗民》Citizen Dog by The Finger Players | ArtsEquator Skip to content In this episode, Liu Xiaoyi and Oliver Chong unpack a scene from The Finger Players 十指帮 ‘s 《大狗民》Citizen Dog and talk about the set design, costume design and more...
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about 49 months ago (05/06/2020)
Ong Keng Sen: Pushing the conversation | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Patricia Bateira May 6, 2020 Theatre stalwart Ong Keng Sen returns to helm Singapore theatre company TheatreWorks, after being away for a decade to complete his PhD in Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts in New York...
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about 49 months ago (05/04/2020)
Theatre goes online: Call me a purist, I don’t care | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles May 4, 2020 By Fasyali Fadzly (2,100 words, 7-minute read) No one would have guessed that the COVID-19 situation would become this bad...
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about 50 months ago (03/27/2020)
World Theatre Day: Tribute to Singapore shows affected by COVID-19 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Photo by Paul Green on Unsplash March 27, 2020 By ArtsEquator From 26 March 2020, 2359 hrs, all theatres in Singapore will go dark in response to COVID-19 measures...
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about 51 months ago (02/26/2020)
Podcast 76: The Runaway Company | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Michael Chow February 27, 2020 Duration: 30 min Nabilah Said speaks to Izzul Irfan and Mahirah Abdul Latiff of The Runaway Company about structures, succession and misconceptions about their work...
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about 54 months ago (12/02/2019)
Monsters' Ink: A Fiend’s Diary & Heather | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Tuckys Photography December 2, 2019 By Nabilah Said (1,500 words, 7-minute read) Spoiler Alert: The following contains major spoilers for the shows A Fiend’s Diary and Heather...
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about 56 months ago (10/09/2019)
Translating Homeland: Tanah•Air 水•土: A Play In Two Parts | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Zinkie Aw for Drama Box October 9, 2019 By Nabilah Said (1,900 words, 7-minute read) In less than a week, Drama Box will premiere Tanah•Air 水•土: A Play In Two Parts , a production revolving around the theme of histories, those that are remembered, and those who are sidelined...
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about 56 months ago (09/13/2019)
Diasporic Dispatches: "The Cardboard Kitchen Project" by FK Co-Lab | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of FK Co-Lab September 14, 2019 By Rebecca Goh (977 words, 6-minute read) We step into the dimly-lit theatre of The Lion & Unicorn , a soft, almost dream-like blue wash over the noticeable emptiness of the stage – save for a skeletal cardboard cut-out resembling a door frame, carefully set stage left...
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about 57 months ago (08/28/2019)
Instructions for reheating: “Forked” by The Finger Players | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints August 28, 2019 By Nabilah Said (820 words, 5-minute read) In the pre-show for Forked , playwright and performer Jo Tan is warming up, prepping her body...